“…The masterly stories of Mary Gordon return us to the pleasure of this writer’s craft and to her monumental talent as an observer of character and of the ever-fading American Dream. …”
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“…The natural limits of the human body make us vulnerable and therefore dependent, throughout our lives, on others. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Double indemnity (1944, 1954 [TV], 1960 [TV], 1973 [TV]), and Body heat (1981) -- Murder, my sweet (1944) and Farewell, my lovely (1975) -- Detour (1945, 1992) -- The big sleep (1945/1946, 1978) -- Notorious (1945, 1992 [TV]) -- The postman always rings twice (1945, 1981) -- The killers (1946, 1964) -- Somewhere in the night (1946) and The crooked way (1949) -- Body and soul (1947, 1981, 1998 [TV]) -- Dark passage (1947) and Johnny Handsome (1989) -- Kiss of death (1947, 1995) and The fiend who walked the west (1958) -- Out of the past (1947) and Against all odds (1984) -- Ride the pink horse (1947) and The hanged man (1964 [TV]) -- The big clock (1948) and No way out (1987) -- They live by night (1948) and Thieves like us (1974) -- Criss cross (1949) and The underneath (1995) -- Gun crazy (1949) and Guncrazy (1992) -- House of strangers (1949) and Broken lance (1954) -- The asphalt jungle (1950), The badlanders (1958), Cairo (1963), and Cool breeze (1972) -- D.O.A. (1949, 1988) and Color me dead (1969) -- Night and the city (1950, 1992) -- No man of her own (1950), I married a shadow (1982), While you were sleeping (1995), and Mrs. …”

“…The Year of Four Emperors, so the ancient sources assure us, was one of the most chaotic, violent and frightening periods in all Roman history: a time of assassinations and civil wars, of armies so out of control that they had no qualms about occupying the city of Rome, and of ambitious men who seized power only to lose it, one after another. …”

“…Beginning with the earliest known finds, this volume provides a linear and thematic account of the history of the Old Stone Age, or Palaeolithic Period, covering major discoveries, interpretations and debates worldwide, a story that takes us from the embers of the Great Fire of London to the beginning of the Covid pandemic. …”

“…Negative portrayals of the West in Iran are often centred around the CIA-engineered coup of 1953, which overthrew Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddeq, or the hostage-taking crisis in 1979 following the attack on the US embassy in Tehran. Looking past these iconic events, Ehsan Bakhshandeh explores the deeper anti-imperialistic and anti-hegemonic roots of the hostility to Westernism that is evident in the Iranian press. …”

“…Drawing on writers as diverse as Plato, Homer, Nietzsche, Borges, Don DeLillo, and Philip Roth, Peter Euben shows us the relevance of both popular literature and ancient Greek thought to current questions of loss, mourning, and democracy--all while arguing for the redeeming qualities of political and intellectual work and making an original case against presentism. …”
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“…One of these two views, in particular, seems to be free from problems; adopting something along the lines of this view might finally allow us to make sense of the mind-body problem. An essential read for anyone who believes that no satisfactory solution to “the mind-body problem” has yet been discovered."…”

“…It consists of an introduction and of twelve articles written by specialists from various European countries and includes an interview with US novelist Jayne Anne Philips, conducted by her translator into French, Marc Amfreville, addressing her latest novel, Quiet Dell, through the victimhood-vulnerability prism. …”

“…Under Vladimir Putin's leadership, the country has annexed Crimea, begun a war in Eastern Ukraine, used chemical weapons on the streets of the UK and created an army of Internet trolls to meddle in the US presidential elections. How should we understand this apparent relapse into aggressive imperialism and militarism' In this book, Sergei Medvedev argues that this new wave of Russian nationalism is the result of mentalities that have long been embedded within the Russian psyche. …”

“…They set our work hours, dictate how we drive and set the table, tell us whether to offer an extended hand or cheek in greeting, and organize the rites of life, from birth through death. …”

“…Income inequality, cultural divisions, and political polarization increasingly pull us apart. Our governing institutions often seem paralyzed. …”

“…As sentient beings, capable of flourishing and suffering, and particularly vulnerable to how others treat us, our view of the world is substantially evaluative. …”

“…In a book that joins stirring memoir and sharp philosophical inquiry, Berube guides us through the labyrinth of ethical issues surrounding how we approach disability and uses Jamie's story to argue for a deeper understanding of disability that challenges us to move toward a more just, more inclusive society…”

“…To test the hypotheses, I conduct statistical analyses of all U.S. post-WWII foreign crises and a case study of the 199294 U.S. intervention in Somalia. …”

“…His seamless transformation from developer of the deadly V2 ballistic missile for Hitler to an American celebrity as the supposed genius behind the golden years of the U.S. space program in the 1950s and 1960s raises haunting questions about the culture of the Cold War, the shared values of technology in totalitarian and democratic societies, and the imperatives of material progress…”

“…The Lums are cursed: ever since Grandpa Melvin was inspired to join the U.S. army after watching a Popeye movie and-as family lore has it-unleashed a "relentless rain of steel death" upon the Nazis, Lum after Lum has been doomed to an untimely demise, be it by tainted cheeseburger or speeding ice cream truck. …”
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“…And what does the Arab Spring tell us about the nature and prospects of these efforts? …”